Conclusion: Agility Works at Scale

If you accept the premise that market needs change faster than the software industry’s traditional ability to develop solutions, you’re left with the question “what can we do about it?” For me the answer is Agile.

— Israel Gat, Vice President, Infrastructure Management, BMC Software, Inc.

Throughout this work, we have highlighted the positive experiences of many industry thought leaders, software coaches and practitioners, and industry-leading software companies in their conversion to agile methods.

We’ve explained that almost no matter what agile method is used, a number of agile best practices will naturally emerge at the team level, each of which contributes to higher team productivity as well as higher ...

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